Skymall Invisible Bluetooth Earpiece is so small it could slalom right

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In the late 90’s and the early double oughts, the trend for mobile phone ear pieces was decidedly cyberpunk-esque. Eerily glowing earpieces that looked more like cyborg aural transplants than anything else, their blue LED throbbing alerting the attention of any passers-by that, yes, you were using your mobile phone without the antediluvian practice of lifting the phone to your head.

Thankfully, since then, we’ve seen the fashion in Bluetooth earpieces go the other way: instead of advertising that you are talking on your phone through the stylings of gaudy, Neal Stephenson-esque techno-fashion, earpieces now tend to be so small that, when you use one, you risk looking like a madman softly mumbling to himself.

SkyMall’s latest earpiece takes this trend towards invisibility to insane diminutiveness. The earpiece is the size of a match head, and is crammed directly into your ear canal. It comes with a transmitter that hangs on a cord around your neck. Simple!

It also looks worryingly small, liable to slalom right down your ear’s eustachian tube to rattle around in your brain pan. But Skymall has you covered: they have figured out a way to remove the ear piece without digging around in your cochlea with a sharp pair of tweezers. You just use a super strong magnet to suck the earpiece out of your ear! What could possibly go wrong?

The technology was originally designed for Secret Service types, so there’s also a Morse Code communication feature. All this and more for only $200.

Speak Your Mind

Rob

This is awesome! Expensive, but awesome. Headphones aren’t allowed where I work, almost exclusively for appearances. If the sound quality were passable, and they could be used either singly or in pairs, it’d be a great way to cheat the system.